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The latest international comparisons of youth #vaping rates (now including Great Britain 2024)

➡️Australia still has one of the highest youth vaping rates in the Western world, despite harsh restrictions designed to reduce youth access
Anne Ruston @adambandt David Pocock

Spectacular & unprecedented decline in cigarette sales in 🇯🇵in last 10 years through heated tobacco products. Without government support. Just imagine how much faster cig sales would have dropped if Japanese govt had lifted a finger!

Vapers Digest 17th May vapers.org.uk/vapers-digest-… via vapers.org.uk

FCTCofficial World Health Organization (WHO) If the US tobacco industry 'targets teens,' their evil tactics are an abject failure.

Anyone who looks at CDC MMWRs on the National Youth Tobacco Survey can see this.

Why are you claiming something that is objectively false? Who pays you to do so?
#ConflictOfInterest

Frank Baeyens Filip Lardon x.com/FarsalinosK/st…

'Cancer almost a certainty with e-cigs', says a study that measured nothing, assumed pyrolysis at 300-1000oC in ecigs, and then modelled emissions. You can easily make the same conclusion for any cooked food...
That is not science...
rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Heated tobacco products have ripped into the cigarette market in Japan - now down by half. An amazing, cost-effective win for public health... and it only required tobacco control activists to stay out of the way.

Great new briefing from The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction
gsthr.org/resources/brie…

We've submitted our #LSBUresearch response to the Vaping Products Duty Consultation drawing on our extensive research on compensatory behaviour using #vapes / #ecigs You can view it here: lsbu.ac.uk/__data/assets/…
Dr Kirstie Soar Dr Catherine Kimber Sharon Cox

Filip Lardon x.com/robertosussman…

Rephrased:

Smokers respond positively to truthful risk information about heated tobacco products. Researchers misunderstand the conditions under which reduced exposure claims are permitted by FDA Tobacco TCA 911(g)(2) and think ignorance is better.

fda.gov/tobacco-produc…

Rephrased: maker of a low-risk alternative to cigarettes adapted its advertising to comply with new laws. Misguided academics call for a “complete advertisement ban” to better protect Israel’s cigarette trade and promote disease by reducing visibility of much safer alternatives.

Rephrased: activists work on plan to make vaping a less appealing alternative to smoking, with the predictable effect of increasing smoking and promoting illicit trade and risky workarounds. The rights and preferences of those at greatest risk are to be cast aside for no reason.

“It is safe to assume that the number of epidemiologists in the world greatly exceeds the number of risk factors that are left for them to discover…”
Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 — always worth reading.

snowdon.substack.com/p/ultra-low-ri…

Must-read: Tobacco smoking addiction and nicotine dependence - an excellent synthesis of knowledge, history, and possible approaches.
osf.io/rf74g

It is a chapter by Sharon Cox for a forthcoming book, but there is no need to wait.

The chapter can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking the three little dots and then clicking 'download'.

1/7 Dr Gal Cohen and I feature in this new Science Magazine article by Frederik Joelving to discuss a troubling paper that claims to show #vaping increases risk of stroke, but which not only bungled the data and analysis but even gets the affiliations wrong...😬 Let's take a look...

New blog: The UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill: a misfire and backfire.

The new policy and legislation fail the critical at-risk population - adults who already smoke.

'It's the smoking, stupid' and not distant hypothetical smoking, but smoking here and now.
clivebates.com/uk-tobacco-and…

Vapers Digest 3rd May vapers.org.uk/vapers-digest-… via vapers.org.uk

Compared to continuing smokers, smokers who switched to JUUL #ecig had substantially lower exposures to multiple harmful chemicals, favorable differences in markers of inflammation, endothelial function, oxidative stress, and cardiovascular risk, and fewer respiratory symptoms.

Filip Lardon Frank Baeyens ik bedoel de uitspraken in het artikel. uitspraken zoals frank hier aanhaalt
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